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Graham Rahal joins Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing

November 13, 2012

Graham Rahal has signed a multi-year deal to drive in the Izod IndyCar Series with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Photo by LAT PHOTOGRAPHIC

Bobby and Graham Rahal said the time was “finally right” for them to become partners in a race team and as expected, Graham Rahal joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing after the two sides reached agreement on a multi-year deal on Wednesday.

Except for the 2010 Indianapolis 500, when Graham drove for his father, it will be the first time in open-wheel racing that they've been together.

The only other time Graham drove for Bobby was in a sports car in 2008. They said that even in go-kart racing it was important for them to do their own thing, their own way, for Graham to make his own way, for both to respect each other for their own strengths.

“I had to develop on my own and become my own person and my own driver,” said Graham, who won the 2008 IndyCar race at St. Petersburg, Fla., with Newman/Haas Racing. “The only way I can do that was to not race for him.